The Real Thing - further casting announced
Preview by Lizzie Guilfoyle
HATTIE Morahan, Barnaby Kay and Fenella Woolgar will join Toby Stephens in Anna Mackmin’s revival of Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing, which runs at the Old Vic Theatre from April 21 (previews from April 10) to June 5, 2010.
Morahan’s theatre credits include Time and the Conways, The Family Reunion, Some Trace of Her, The Seagull and The City. On screen, she has appeared in Lark Rise to Candleford and Sense and Sensibility.
Kay, who was seen on stage most recently in the Donmar Warehouse production of A Streetcar Named Desire, has appeared on television in Wuthering Heights, The Government Inspector, The Fixer and Spooks. And Woolgar’s credits include Time and the Conways and As You Like It (stage); Summer Project, Scoop and Vera Drake (screen).
The cast of The Real Thing also includes Tom Austen, Louise Calf and Jordan Young.
Previously Posted: Anna Mackmin will direct Toby Stephens in the revival of Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing, which runs at the Old Vic Theatre from April 21 (previews from April 10) to June 5, 2010.
This comic work, originally staged in 1982, has received a host of awards, including a 1984 Tony Award for Best Play. It examines the nature of honesty, adultery and reality, focusing on the nature of true love through the relationship between playwright Henry and his actress wife Charlotte.
Stephens theatre credits include the title roles in Hamlet and Coriolanus (RSC), as well as Japes, The Royal Family and A Streetcar Named Desire (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Ring Around the Moon (Lincoln Center, New York) and Phèdre/Britannicus (Almeida at the Albery).
His more recent credits include A Doll’s House, alongside Gillian Anderson, and Roger Michell’s production of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal (both at the Donmar Warehouse) and The Country Wife (Theatre Royal Haymarket).
On screen, he has appeared in Jane Eyre, Wild West, The Best Man, Margaret, Five Little Pigs, Cambridge Spies, Perfect Strangers, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, A View from the Bridge and The Camomile Lawn (TV); Dark Corners, Severance, The Rising, Die Another Day, Possession, The Great Gatsby, Eugene Onegin and Orlando (film).
Mackmin‘s credits include Ghosts (Gate Theatre); Breathing Corpses and Food Chain (Royal Court); The Dark (Donmar Warehouse); Auntie and Me (Wyndham’s Theatre); In Flame (Bush and the New Ambassadors); Cloud Nine, The Crucible and Iphigenia (all at Sheffield Crucible); The Lightning Play and Dying for It (Almeida Theatre); Burn, Citizenship and Chatroom (National Theatre); In Celebration and Under the Blue Sky (Duke of York’s Theatre); and Dancing at Lughnasa (Old Vic).
Stoppard’s works include Rock ‘N’ Roll, The Coast of Utopia, The Invention of Love, the Olivier Award-winning Arcadia, The Real Thing, Night and Day, Travesties, Jumpers, After Magritte and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
John Guare’s Six Degrees of Separation continues at the Old Vic until April 3, 2010.
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